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Water Uptake Experiment

Mediterranean Garden

Dormice at Wakehurst Place

 

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BBC's 'A New Year at Kew'

Episode 7

The hottest July on record

Orchids

Lara Jewitt explains the sex life of the orchid and creates a display in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.

 

 

 

Water Uptake Experiment

 

Researcher Steve Jansen injects trees and shrubs with dye to find out how they might survive drought.

Mediterranean Garden

As climate change brings hotter summers to Britain , heat-loving plants are thriving. Tony Hall and Pat Smallcombe plant a Mediterranean garden with cork, olive and pine imported from Italy .

Dormice at Wakehurst Place

Steve Robinson does his monthly audit for the little creatures in the thriving ancient woodland at Kew 's sister garden, Wakehurst Place , in Sussex .

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